[Computing] is just a fabulous place for that, because it’s a place where you don’t have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.
ALAN KAYThey don’t like the idea of having different points of view.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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I hired finishers because I’m a good starter and a poor finisher.
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But Basic happened to be on a GE timesharing system that was done by Dartmouth, and when GE decided to franchise that, it started spreading Basic around just because it was there, not because it had any intrinsic merits whatsoever.
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Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual – not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
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Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.
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The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
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In computers, every ‘new explosion’ was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.
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The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.
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The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
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It is not a tool, although it can act like many tools. It is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.
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And when they decided to beef up their OSs, they went to (different) very old bad mainframe models of OS design to try to adapt to personal computers.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn’t started yet.
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